aim or direct at; as of blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment; "Please don''t aim at your little brother!"; "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don''t train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one''s opponent"

guide the actors in (plays and films)

lead, as in the performance of a composition; "conduct an orchestra; Bairenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years"

direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

cause to go somewhere; "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"

take somebody somewhere; "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance?"; "He conducted us to the palace"

be in charge of

exact; "the direct opposite"

effected directly by action of the voters rather than through elected representatives; "many people favor direct election of the President rather than election by the Electoral College"

similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity; "a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases)"

moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth

immediate or direct in bearing or force; having nothing intervening; "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident"

in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker; "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim"

in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child; "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity"

as an immediate result or consequence; "a direct result of the accident"

without deviation; "the path leads directly to the lake"; "went direct to the office"